Flora of North America species comparison

usually scattered, ascending to erect, solid, sometimes glaucous, proximally usually long bristly-hirsute, hairs simple or few stellate, rarely glabrous, distally stellate-hairy.

usually few to many, clustered, sprawling or decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, not rooting, solid, glaucous, proximally usually stellate-puberulent, sometimes glabrous, distally glabrous.

mostly cauline (on reproductive stems), basal present mostly when stems young;

stipules lanceolate to ovate, (3–)4–5 × 0.8–3 mm;

proximal petioles 7–12 cm, 3–4 times blade length, distal usually 1/2–1 times blade length;

blade often grayish green, reniform or reniform-orbiculate, 2.5–6 × 2.5–6 cm, base wide-cordate, margins ciliate, apex rounded overall (lobes can be acute), surfaces softly stellate-hairy to silky villous-hirsute;

basal shallowly, palmately 5-lobed, lobe not 1-sided, 3–8 cm, elongating in fruit;

bracts linear, unlobed or infrequently 2-fid, 2–5 mm, subequal to or longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

basal and cauline, basal leaves 9 or fewer or deciduous;

stipules lanceolate, (2–)3–5(–6) × 0.5–1.5 mm;

petioles of basal and proximal cauline leaves 6–14 cm, 3–4 times as long as blades, reduced distally to 1/2 times to as long as blades;

blade reniform-orbiculate, palmately 5(–7)-lobed, deeply incised, 2–6(–8) × 2–6(–8) cm, glaucous, surfaces glabrous or minutely stellate-puberulent, lobes shallowly dentate, more deeply divided on distal leaves, margins entire, distalmost sometimes linear, unlobed.

ascending, open, calyces not conspicuously overlapping except sometimes in bud, usually unbranched, 3–10(–20)-flowered, elongate, 1-sided, 8–20 cm, axis curved between flowers, sometimes zigzag in appearance;

bracts linear to lanceolate, distinct or connate and 2-fid, 5 mm, proximal divided to base, distal often undivided, shorter than to equaling pedicels.

1–3(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

2–3(–10) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 5–9 mm, stellate-puberulent and softly long-hirsute with marginal bristles 1.5 mm;

petals magenta-pink, drying dark purple, sometimes pale-veined, 5–15 mm, pistillate darker, 5 mm;

staminal column 3–6 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 6–8.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 5–10 mm, enlarging in fruit, hairy, hairs scattered, minute, stellate and sometimes capitate, glandular;

petals pink to pink-purple, pale-veined at least when dry, pistillate (7–)9–12 mm, bisexual 15–20(–25) mm;

staminal column 4–7 mm, stellate-hairy;

anthers pale yellow or pinkish to white;

stigmas 6–8.

1.5–2 mm.

2 mm.

4–5 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–8, 2.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulent, sides slightly reticulate-veined, back rougher, pitted, mucro 0.5 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–8, 3–3.5 mm, roughened, sides reticulate-veined and deeply pitted, back reticulate-veined and glandular-puberulent, mucro 0.3–1 mm.

= 20.

= 40.